The article might be misleading. What I heard is that: Guo resigned from the mayor post and will be promoted to the party chief of BeiJing, which is more prominent position than the mayor of BeiJing

6:16 am July 26, 2012

Who's in charge of cleanup now! wrote:

Why is the article misleading? The timing of the resignation is very interesting as we don't see other Chinese officials leaving in late July in the aftermath of deadly rains called a natural disaster by the CCP government!

Looks like the transition for everyone else is taking place as scheduled in the fall! So why does Guo get to resign early?

Then again, I remember the CCP stating that the 'Great Leap Foreward' was a natural disaster too, instead of the failed and incompetant policies set forth by Chairman Mao and the commie party of China!

It's the same as stating the Wenzhou HSR train crash was always a natural disaster, rather than the incompetance of CCP management!

7:56 am July 26, 2012

pug_ster wrote:

What WSJ propagandists like Russell Leigh Moses don't know or don't want to let us know is how bad the torrential rains in Beijing was. Since picture is worth a thousand words, there's a youtube video on this.

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